Member Reviews - March '26 > Likes and Comments

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Hi Steve. A notification for this just popped up and I clicked to read. What a great idea! Without further ado, here is a review that I posted yesterday for Wendy Hart's historical fiction novel, "Birds in the Nest":

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

My 1st Recommendation for March 2026:

Title of the Book: Married Men: A Calm Man Quietly Collects Britain’s Most Respectable Married Men
Author: Rory Calder
Genre: Queer Literary Fiction/Queer Erotica Literary Fiction
My GR Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

My 2nd Recommendation for March 2026:

Title of the Book - Embers of Forgotten Fate (Embers Saga Book 1)
Author - Ela Sharp
Genre - Romantic Suspenseful Fantasy

My GR Review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

My Recommendation for March 2026:
Title: Becoming Catherine
Author: Jane C R Reid
Genre: Historical Fiction / Time Slip Romance
My GR Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

My recommendation for March 2026:

Title: Everheld
Author: Ela Sharp
Genre: Contemporary romance
My GR Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

A Change to my 1st Recommendation for March 2026:

The author had not written his own book but used either an AI or LLM or a human ghost-writer to do so. For AI, I would say Gemini or Claude. He does not know a word of English & harasses as well as casts aspersions on Benedictine Catholic Nuns & their virginity online; not to mention abusing the nun's office staff & 70 year old aging maternal uncle in the bargain!

Steve, Mehmet & all - we need to sift through those authors posting ARC requests on our platform - I have noticed through my own support of these so-called authors that their books have been written by LLMs or AIs completely & they have zero knowledge of their own book, their topic of concern & the English Language for that matter.

Title of the Book: Married Men: A Calm Man Quietly Collects Britain’s Most Respectable Married Men
Author: Rory Calder
Genre: Queer Literary Fiction/Queer Erotica Literary Fiction
My 1 star GR Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Thanks for bringing this to our attention! I think there needs to be more ways to route out these fake "authors" and ban them!

Sorry, you were subjected to harassment! I know there's probably not enough boots-on-the-ground moderators to catch all the nefarious perpetrators trying to fool readers! I'm grateful to you and to others who are aware of these scams and whistle-blow them out of here! Thank you ♡♡♡

Fiza wrote : '' ............. Steve, Mehmet & all - we need to sift through those authors posting ARC requests on our platform - ...........''

Hi Fiza, thanks for the information. Unfortunately, this is not something we can directly control. Most likely, the process will take shape over time through reader reviews and feedback.

Mehmet : )

Sorry to hear about your bad experience, Fiza.

Sadly, finding ourselves on the cusp of the AI system, we’re going to be facing many challenges along the way. It might be relatively easy right now to decipher what is and what isn’t AI, but it’ll get more difficult as time goes on. Artificial intelligence is a fast train with no intention of stopping.

My 3rd Recommendation for March 2026:

Title of the Book - Omega Revolution: Before the Flame
Author - Perry Masen
Genre - Science-Fantasy Fiction

My 4 star GR Review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

My 4th Recommendation for March 2026:

Title of the Book - The Strains of Malice (The Nessemiah, #1)
Author - Andrew Beardmore
Genre - Fantasy Fiction

My 5 star GR Review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Andrew wrote: "Hi Steve. A notification for this just popped up and I clicked to read. What a great idea! Without further ado, here is a review that I posted yesterday for Wendy Hart's historical fiction novel, "..."

Gorgeous review Andrew, I am going to try this one by Hart too once I finish some more of my pending indie-author books. Rooting for Hart as well as for you Andrew - amazing book & onward to your second book in The Nessemiah series! <3 :D :D God be with you always! <3 :D :D

I thank everyone who has sympathized with me regarding my experience with Rory Calder & I will reply to you all individually, but right now I have to cram for my upcoming exams in Catholic Theology & Machine Learning (ML) both at the same time & so will get back to you all shortly! Love to you all nevertheless - Choyang, Mehmet (super-cute!) & Jane! May the force be with all of us! <3 :D :D :)